I am trying to setup ROOT on my new MacBook running under windows.
While the installation with this new windows root 5 installer is without troubles I cannot start it.
It says:
This application has failed to start because MSVCR71.dll was not found.
I read on the root install page that this is a known problem for win 95 and 98 but I have Windows XP Prof installed.
I just wonder if I did something wrong and if it should run out of the box. If not please let me know where to I should copy this missing library.
I downloaded the first binary package on the root downloader page where it says:
Windows Installer Packages
Regular Windows installer package also setting up the required environment variables. With uninstall via “Control Panel” / “Add or Remove Programs”. Simply download and start, or open directly
according to that I also do not need things like cygwin. Am I right?
thanks for your quick answer. On my machine I only have Win XP Prof installed nothing like VC++8 (which is MS Visual C++?) as far as I know.
That brings me to a very fundamental quick question:
(sorry if it is stupid but I am mostly using root at cern under SLC3 and there everything is fine)
On my windows machine, if I do not have something like VC++8 on it is it at all possible to compile any root stuff? What do I need to have installed to be able to run it and also to compile on it (not necessarily outside root but at least in cint with .L myscript.C++).
thanks, copying the library indeed helps and I can run root now.
But please let me stress that in contrary to what the root web page says:
I have a recent windows installation (Win XP Prof) and not Win 95 or 98
I do not have VC++8 on the machine, if VC++8 means one of these MS Visual Studio packages (Cern IT refuses to give it to me because I refuse to install the NICE cern windows version on my cern laptop )
and I still needed to copy the library to my machine. I guess i misunderstand the page but how I read it it is not correct for me.
As indicated in my previous posting, I modified the Download page to mention that this dll must be downloaded if you run anything else than VC++7.1.
There have been a few postings about the use of a free version of VC++ under Windows. I am sure that Axel or Bertrand will add more info in this thread.
I am trying to setup ROOT on my new MacBook running under windows.
While the installation with this new windows root 5 installer is without troubles I cannot start it.
It says:
This application has failed to start because MSVCR71.dll was not found.
[/quote] Try one from root.bnl.gov . It should install everything ROOT needs properly, Let me know how it works.
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